Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.